Review on Impacts of Rural Land Registration and Certification on Small Holder Farmers in Ethiopia

Mulu Kaba

doi:10.7176/jesd/12-15-02

Abstract

Land is becoming increasingly scarce for Ethiopia particularly for rural households and a source livelihood and as the same time cause of conflict and dispute between and within groups in rural household. The objective of the seminar is to review the impacts of land registration and certification on rural households of Ethiopia. In Ethiopia for the past ten years over 9.1householdrs were received land certifications. Even though such amount of landholders of received land certifications there is a gap of perception between region to region as well as farmer to farmers. The review also assesses different governments’ rules, policies and land legislation from Emperor to EPDRF. In Emperor Regimes land was freehold tenure, provide individual titles of land and facilitate land sales. In Derg there was abolished the tenant-landlord relations and land was to tiller but land could not sold and exchanged. According to EPDRF policy land is both private and public owner ship, so it could be registered and certified and not to be sold exchanged. But still there is different disagreement on land titling and tenure security. Some scholars said that land registration and titling can create conflicts over land rights. While other, said under productivity and low investment is due to land was under governments. But it will be better if contending parties listen what the people say and take into account the social, cultural and historical contexts of the society before designing and revising land policies and strategies. At the end it summarizes with more outcomes will be achieved through stockholders participation. Keywords: land, land registration, certification, impact, policy DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-15-02 Publication date: August 31 st 2021

Highlights

1.1 Background Land is a fundamental asset for economic development, food security and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and has a crucial importance to the economies and societies of the region (Cotula, et al, 2004)
THE IMPACTES OF RURAL LAND REGISRATION AND CERTIFICATION ON SMALL HOLDER FARMERS IN ETHIOPIA 2.1 Theoretical review 2.1.1 Definitions and concepts of land policy issues Land is defined as the “surface of the earth, the material beneath the air above, and all things fixed to the soil, so it is more than just ‘land’ alone: it includes buildings, etc’’
The review suppose that certification impact requires taking into account the socio-economic and cultural factors that define the use of land in rural Ethiopia, and to determine the effect of the certificates on land tenure insecurity of both male and female land holders

Summary

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background Land is a fundamental asset for economic development, food security and poverty reduction in sub-Saharan Africa and has a crucial importance to the economies and societies of the region (Cotula, et al, 2004). Land tenure systems are defined by societies to determine access to specific uses of a certain piece of land and the distribution of the benefits that accrue from these (Wubneh, M., 2018). 2. THE IMPACTES OF RURAL LAND REGISRATION AND CERTIFICATION ON SMALL HOLDER FARMERS IN ETHIOPIA 2.1 Theoretical review 2.1.1 Definitions and concepts of land policy issues Land is defined as the “surface of the earth, the material beneath the air above, and all things fixed to the soil, so it is more than just ‘land’ alone: it includes buildings, etc’’ (van der Molen, 2002). The federal government states that peasant farmers, pastoralists and semi-pastoralists can transfer their rural land-use rights through donation Type of Legal recognition, registration, transferability and characteristics State land tenure

Legal recognition

No states

Benshangul Gumuz

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